Learn how to use "Text To Speech" software such as "NeoSpeech Julie" and "TextAloud 2.0" software for use in Youtube slideshows.

One problem that I was having was that I didn't know how to change the duration of the pause function in TextAloud 2.0. (A comma would give you a pause of 0.5 seconds, and a period would give you a pause of 1.0 seconds.) Now I know how to change the duration of individual pauses.

Simply, (while in TextAloud, and in your paragraph of text) place the cursor wherever you want the pause to occur, then click on Edit, > (then on) Insert Pause, > (then on) 0.25 seconds (or whatever amount of a pause/break you desire. You can change the value by selecting "user defined", (which is located at the bottom), which can give you a 30 second pause if you so desire.

Here it will look like this:

By adding a 1/4 of a second pauses, to the spoken sentences, this slows down the spoken audio voice (such as Julie) and makes the spoken words more pleasant to listen to.

Now, I would like to figure out how to make the voice of Julie change her volume/pitch level by using the question mark key, and the exclamation mark key. (Something which appears to only work about 20% of the time)

Does anyone know how to manipulate the ? mark or the ! mark key?

Here is an example of the type of slideshows we can create using "Text to Speech" software called NeoSpeech Julie, with "TextAloud 2.0" software.

Integration at its Worst: Prison life for White men: NeoSpeech JulieNow with over 2,000 views!

Assuming you installed your NeoSpeech voices, you can select what voice you want by selecting your desired voice. (I found the voice of Julie to be the best so far.) To select your voice it should look like this.

Re: Learn how to use "Text To Speech" software such as "NeoSpeech Julie" & "TextAloud 2.0" for use in Youtube video

Oh you made that prison audio vid? That's a great article. I showed that video to a few racially unaware friends. They were quite shocked.

I have text a loud but I use MIKE. He's not bad, but I definitely think JULIE is the best. I need to download her. But I prefer to listen to male voices for some reason.

What I like about text a loud is I can use it to read an article or book while I can still do other things like clean the house or browse the net. Its great for multi tasking and uploading to your ipod if you don't like reading.

Robot voices have come a LONG way since the Steven Hawking stereotypical voice. Its actually bearable now